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Regional SeatsEast Midlands Region
Female seat – Nicole Berrisford
Male seat – Chris Tansley
Greater London Region
Female seats – Margaret Greer, Kim Silver
Male seat – Mike Davey
North West Region
General seat – Pat McDonagh
Female seats – Tracy Delaney, Michelle England
Male seat – Tony…Read more…
London Ambulance Service member, Eric Roberts, and Lewisham hospital nurse, Mike Davey, are standing as London health candidates on behalf of the forces of light and reason against the evil ones. Read more…
These are the candidates who are standing in UNISON National seats who I would support (including myself of course!)
Check out UNISON NEC Elections blog and Facebook page for more details. Read more…
Totally and utterly agree. If you want to live in this country and enjoy its rule of law, relative low crime and social cohesion then you should at least pay the same marginal rate of taxation as your cleaner.
If you don’t want to pay this then can we…Read more…
Fantastic treat tonight in the UNISON centre for NEC members and staff before Presidents Charity fund raising quiz. Amazing performance by Choir which was much appreciated by audience.
Tomorrow (April 7) ballot papers should be starting to drop though the home letter boxes of 1.3 million UNISON members up and down the country.
Every 2 years all members of the UNISON National Executive Committee (NEC) are up for re-election. The UNIS…Read more…
This is an interesting video commissioned by modern day London Councils to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the current London Borough arrangements. Before 1965 Newham had separate West Ham and East Ham Councils.
There has been massive changes in Lon…Read more…
Picture collage is from this afternoon’s campaigning for Wes Streeting as the future Labour MP for Ilford North.
We had 5 West Hammers (and 1 East Hammer) with us while Walhamstow PPC, Stella Creasy, was also there with her local activists to support …Read more…
Shortly after I blogged on my “Vote Labour” poster in my window there was outside the annual Easter “Walk of Witness” by local Churches, who gathered at the Joseph Fry Memorial drinking fountain in Wansted flats.
My 2015 General Election “Vote Labour” window poster has just gone up. Now, I have my doubts that window posters actually change people’s voting intentions. If there are many of them in an area they can portray presence and local support but I th…Read more…
UNISON (Housing Associations Branch)
Location: London . Salary: £34,633 inc LW (pay award pending) . Hours: 35 hours per week . About the job: Please note that this is a branch-employed post.
The Branch Organiser is a new role within the Unison Housing Associations branch. The…Read more…
“Today big Tory Business lines up to attack ED Miliband and Labour by sending a letter to a right wing paper saying it would be a disaster if Labour are elected…. Look carefully at these companies and individuals.
They comprise of Corporate Tax Dod…Read more…
If you are a member of the Co-op – check out this video on how to keep the co-operative partnership between the Co-op Group and the Co-op Party.
Work together in cooperation for a fairer Britain.Read more…
Check out the latest Inequality Briefing “Since 2009 executive pay has soared and the number of billionaires has increased, while food bank use has rocketed and pay for ordinary workers has fallen”.
If you want to really do something about thi…Read more…
On Friday I was invited to speak at the annual general meeting of the Newham UNISON branch at the Town Hall in East Ham.
This was in my trade union capacity as the Chair of the London UNISON pension network. This is my wr…Read more…
Saturday was a busy campaigning day. In the morning I went to the Sarah Sackman’s headquarters in Finchley & Golders Green, to help deliver leaflets on behalf of “trade unions together” (TULO). This was a really well organised office with a fr…Read more…
On Tuesday morning I attended another presentation by US transport union, the Teamsters, to pension funds on the anti-union practises by a National Express owned US company called Durham which runs schools buses.
The Chair of the Local Auth…Read more…
Picture from last night’s leaving dinner for my branch outreach worker, Andy Robertson (2nd on
right).
Andy is a former UNISON Housing activist in Leeds who left to become a mature student at university to study a HR (Human Relations – what we u…Read more…